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Identifier: meehansmonthlyma91899phil (find matches)
Title: Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Philadelphia : Thomas Meehan & Sons
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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- to most scholars inphilology. An imitation thimble —false-thimble— would not be so far-fetched as false glove. The Sass.\fras.—The American Druggisttells us that soon after the American continentwas discovered, there was a belief that wonder-ful virtues resided in the Sassafras, and shipswere sent from the Old World especially for thewood and root. All sorts of virtues were at-tributed to it,—even to a belief that it wouldmake salt water drinkable. Though it lost itswonderful reputation, it is still used to a con-siderable extent in pharmacy. VoiJX, Plate N- /
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BiDi^v^ connaj:^ BIDENS CONNATA. CONNATE BUR-MARIGOLD. NATURAL ORDER, COMPOSITE, BiDENS CONNATA, Willdenow.—Glabrous, a foot or two high, loosely branched, leaves either all undivided, oblong orbroadly lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, sharply serrate, tapering into margined petioles or the upper sessile; orsome with a pair of lateral divisions which are sessile and decurrent on the petiole. Akenes obloug-cuueale or theoutermost obovate, nearly glabrous but retrorsely hispid-ciliate, commonly three-awned. Grays Synoptical Flora ofNorth ■ America. See also Grays Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States, Chapmans Flora of theSouthern United States, Woods Class-Book of Botany, and Britton and Browns Illustrated Flora. At the first sight of our picture, the readermight believe he was introduced to a familiarweed, having in mind the common stick-tight of cultivated ground, the seeds ofwhich, when attached to the clothing of somehapless trespasser on what the plant regardsas
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